Some of the original Bell Labs Unix people have a very austere view of the Unix philosophy. In their view, it all started to go wrong -- Unix began to depart f

Some of the original Bell Labs Unix people have a very austere view of the Unix philosophy. In their view, it all started to go wrong -- Unix began to depart from the founding principles -- as early as 1978. In their view, Berkeley Unix does not follow their Unix philosophy -- they don't like network sockets, for example, whose design was mostly imported from some earlier non-Unix system (maybe Tenex?). Some of this attitude appears in Rob Pike's 'Good, Bad and Ugly' talk from 2001 [1]. He says the early Unix tools approach had, by then, already been replaced for most users by big do-everything programs: Emacs, Perl, browsers... 1. http://herpolhode.com/rob/ugly.pdf http://herpolhode.com/rob/ugly.pdf